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RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
stickythis morning at the lights in Seafield opposite Daltons scrap, lady pulls up;
1) far too close next to me.
2) fully in the ASZ ie front wheels level with mine.
3) on the phone.
I possibly wasn't at my most polite, but still ....... bloody cyclists. Fair to say we failed to agree.
Fair to say we failed to agree.
I'm not sure I really want to know, but how could she possibly have thought she was in the right?
Man in SUV had to be alerted several times by the van driver behind that the lights had changed and he should look up from his phone and maybe get on with that driving thing. I was about 100yds up the road before he finally looked up and realised what was happening in the real world.
I just received a call from Customer Services for Lothian Buses to follow up on my complaint earlier in the week. I was asked to clarify the time that the incident took place and the numbers and directions of the buses despite having described all of that information clearly in my complaint. That seemed a little pointless, but it was reassuring that they are making the effort to pass on accurate information to the driver and route managers. I did ask if it would be possible to receive feedback about the ultimate outcome of my complaint, but was told that it would not be possible.
I can't tell if all those pictures are odd or if the buildings are drunk. Some photos they seem to be leaning into the lorry and in others leaning away.
Watch out for black Mercedes AMJ44D, who didn't bother with a pesky 'give way' sign and steamed straight across a mini roundabout that I was already in the middle of. Wheel hit by car but somehow kept upright. Closest call of the year, no idea how I wasn't airborne. Naturally, I'd forgotten to take my camera.
@Snowy
Ooft. You need and deserve beer.
Did they stop?
They didn't stop. If they weren't aware of ploughing through a mini roundabout at 20mph there's a good chance they never even registered me, which is the worrying bit.
@snowy, glad you stayed upright so tht I could finally see your smiley coupon as I waited for you whilst you waited for me the other side of the towpath bridge this evening.
@Snowy - police?
@chdot the eyewitness really can't spell.
@Snowy sounds scary. Glad you're alright.
Today's rubbish driving was brought to you by the driver of an unassuming blue hatchback, who decided that I, a motorbiker, ascending the upper reaches of Queen's Drive towards the pool at 20mph in the 20mph speed limit, was going far too slow. I was already aware of her impatience in my rear view mirrors, and she roared past doing at least 30mph. How I laughed as moments later she had to slow back down to 20mph when she caught the procession of cars just ahead. Today's rubbish driving was also brought to you by muggins here who suddenly saw the red mist and laid on her horn in response.
I caught up with her a minute or two later and asked her what on earth she thought she was doing. She mumbled at me something that fell below the aural threshold of -30dB ear protection, and I waved her away. It kind of spoiled my day, having spent a lovely two hours earlier in a bee suit.
Today's rubbish driving was also brought to you by the cigarette smoking driver of a white van, who stopped alongside me at some traffic lights. I noticed his in-van entertainment was nearly finished, and wasn't surprised when he casually flicked it out of his open window. I caught his attention, pointed at the fag end on the ground, and waggled my finger in that disapproving sort of way. He actually looked embarrassed and opened his door to pick up his litter, but was saved by the green light, which allowed him to bang his door shut and race off.
Driving is hard work. At least when I'm cycling I don't have the energy for much anger.
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My bike was parked outside while I went into the pub for a half. It is now underneath the bike and is worth around £3,000. If anything my bike helped it to not go through into the pub though.
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Why have the Scotsman greyed-out the reg plate of that car?
I thought the whole point of reg plates was so bad drivers could be named & shamed.
Police might have asked them to, since there might be a trial, in the same way they say not to post helmet cam footage online.
On Wednesday I got 2 textbook punishment-passes for the crime of taking the lane. Both beeped their horn, revved aggressively closely behind me for a while, then roared past as close as possible. Both in 20 mph zones when I was doing at least 15 mph.
During morning commute on Bread St, by a black BMW (bonus marks for crossing solid white line into the bus lane for the over-take). Caught up with him 5 seconds later at lights and asked if everything was ok, was threatened in return that if I didn't cycle to the left I would end up getting hurt.
Then on commute home on Morrison St by a Mercedes "Executive" minibus thing. Caught up with him at Roseburn and sadly not nearly so calm this time, lots of swearing. Bonus marks for "I'm a cyclist myself".
Still quite shaken/fuming. Weird coincidence of 2 on same day, given that I have cycled the same route in same manner for years now and last similar incident was about 2 years ago!
@Arellcat Were you wearing a bee suit anywhere near Ratho?
The driver of the truck reversing from Gilmore Place onto Lower Gilmore Place, which had cars parked all along one side and a van parked on the other, without a banksman just now. I took to the pavement.
Wow things seem bad at the moment.
Another stupid pass on Morrison St last night, can't decide if it was a somewhat half-hearted punishment pass or just a rubbish attempt at a legitimate pass. Either way there was traffic queuing at next set of lights 20m ahead.
Then this morning 2 people tried to get past me turning right out of Roseburn St using the left-turn lane. Second of them also ran the red-light to do so, by at least 5 seconds.
Both incidences coincided with long queues of snarled up traffic and very hot/humid temps, but if that is a correlation then it's pretty depressing how little it takes for people to lose their grip. Oh, and 2 out of those 3 incidents were from cars with personalised plates, which is interesting at least if not a scientifically rigorous correlation :)
About to get terrible when the pre festival set up the venues people arrive with there lah di dah gunner Graham, we can drive anywhere we like attitudes.
The driver of the white Range Rover who tried to overtake me on Gilmerton Road about 25m before the Kingston Ave lights, when the lights were on red. I was taking the lane because the bike lane is blocked just past the lights, so the driver ended up stopping in the middle of the road, half in the incoming lane, half in the bike box.
They turned left or right (I hope right, from their road position), since I didn't see them after the lights changed.
After one surprising patient driver who waited until past one of the uphill traffic-island pinch-points in Willowbrae Road to overtake, two stupid impatient ones. The second could have already seen the queue of traffic ahead at the Duddingston Road West temp lights, though given their general demeanour when I stopped to shout at them before heading up the queue they were noticing little apart from the music on their radio.
Coming down Craiglockhart Avenue towards the junction with Lanark Rd, driver in the right-turn lane slows for the amber and stops. Driver of the white VW Golf behind decides he can't wait, so cuts into the left-turn lane, goes through the red light and turns right.
Silver car u-turning into queue at bottom of Mound. I had the temerity to look at him to check he wasn't about to pull back into the bike lane he'd just been blocking at 90 degrees to the traffic. As he was on his phone, he naturally gave me the finger for daring to direct my eyeballs at him. Revved engine, proceeded across junction still on phone, weaving as he went. I may not have covered myself in glory by bawling at his open window ("get off your phone before you kill someone ya Rule Twoing Rule Two hole").
I looked at a private hire cab driving up the wrong side of the road at me the other day.
"What are you f***ing looking at ya f*d?"
Hadn't heard f*d used in anger for years. Quite refreshing.
@iwrwts how very low rent of he Neanderthal taxi driver.
This is how it is supposed to go
Taxi cave man : Dae ye wahnt a picture
IWRATS: Naw, it'd break mah camera
There is also
You lookin at me, or chewin a brick?
The driver of a large black car on Craigleith Hill Avenue yesterday morning, who either lives at or was working on one of the last houses on the left approaching the bollards through to Groathill, as he was lurking outside the car (now parked in a driveway) when I approached, after having done the arm-waving give-me-more-space thing after a close overtake earlier down the road. He muttered something about "I wis naewhere near ye" a couple of times, not understanding that my request for "more space" meant that whatever space he thought he'd given me was insufficient.
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